By: Claire Louise Milne,
on 11/22/2010
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By: Tony Flowers,
on 10/12/2010
I have a gig doing a chalk board in a local Cafe. It's been lots fun and given me a lot of practice drawing in chalk. Also drawing on black backgrounds. I get to change the image when ever I like (normally 2 to 3 times a week) and I can draw what ever I want to. This is yesterdays drawing of a Coffee Robot.
I normally up date my blog with chalk board images every week or two so if you interested come and have a look.
By: Sevensheaven.nl,
on 9/29/2010
Illustration for a roll banner of an Android event.
The image was rendered in 9600 x 24000 pixels (about 80 x 200 cm in 300 DPI).
By: Lauren,
on 7/13/2010
Dennis Baron is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois. His book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, looks at the evolution of communication technology, from pencils to pixels. In this post, also posted on Baron’s personal blog The Web of Language, he discusses the increasingly popular trend of using robots in classrooms. Read his previous posts here.
They’re coming, and they’ll be here by September! Robot teachers, programmed with a single mission: to save our failing schools.
Funded by the Frankenstein Foundation, computer engineers in secret mountain laboratories and workshops hidden deep below the desert floor are feverishly soldering chips and circuit boards onto bits of aluminum to create mechanical life forms whose sole purpose is to teach English.
We need this invasion of English-teaching robots because, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, “an unprecedented number of children in the US start public school with major deficits in basic academic skills, including vocabulary skills.” So computer scientists at UCSD’s Machine Perception Laboratory designed RUBI, a “sociable robot” who successfully taught a group of toddlers ten vocabulary words in only twelve days. RUBI improved the children’s word-mastery by a full 25% compared to a control set of words not taught by the mechanical wonder.
In another experiment, another RUBI the Robot successfully taught English-speaking preschoolers nine words in Finnish (Finnish is notoriously difficult to learn because it is unrelated to any other language). And Korean educators report similar success with ENGKEY, yet another robot English teacher. English is mandatory in all Korean schools, and the government hopes to replace expensive and hard-to-recruit native speakers of American or Canadian English with expensive and hard-to-maintain machines like ENGKEY, a robot programmed to recognize and respond to human speech.
Like computers, robots appeal to school administrators who think the machines are smarter, cheaper, more efficient, and less likely to talk back or take sick days, than human teachers. And they appeal as well to legislators, government officials, and employers who are concerned with low test scores, high drop-out rates, and global economic competition.
To put the robot teacher invasion into context, we should remember that using technology to teach is hardly a new idea. Books are a teaching technology, though anyone who has studied a foreign language only from a textbook and then tried watching a foreign-language film knows that even tried-and-true book-learning has its limitations.
As for the newer communication technologies, when they came on the scene, telephones, radio, film, and television were all going to deliver information to students faster and more efficiently than any teacher could. What I learned from educational radio in the fourth grade was how to sleep in class with my eyes open, and what I learned from filmstrips in school was how long it took for the heat of
By: Sevensheaven.nl,
on 6/1/2010
Clockwiser for Android is now available from the Android Market, featuring graphics by Sevensheaven.
Clockwiser is an addictive puzzle game that will challenge your brain in a playful way.
The concept is simple: move elements around the screen using a draggable selection frame until you've reached the destination layout. The variety of different elements with unique properties will keep your grey matter entertained for many hours.
Try it and you'll discover that the hardest part of Clockwiser is to stop playing it!
By: Sevensheaven.nl,
on 5/21/2010
Satire for the Dutch Nu.nl news website, about the rise of the Google Android operating system.
Sevensheaven images and prints are for sale at sevensheaven.nl
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By: Christine Marie Larsen,
on 5/5/2010
By: Illustrationsbyoscar,
on 3/21/2010
Strangely enough I seem to find myself doing loads of robot work lately without realizing it. This are some character illustrations a PR agency in London commissioned me to do, each one of the characters was going to be used by their staff for their business cards, putting a bit of fun in PR.
By: the space wanderer,
on 3/1/2010
By: the space wanderer,
on 2/19/2010
By: the space wanderer,
on 2/5/2010
One of my Coloring Page Tuesday images. Click the robot to go download a larger version to color!eElizabeth O. Dulembahttp://dulemba.com
By: Dane Ault,
on 12/11/2009
hola,
Long time no post. I'm a loser, I know.
Anywho, I saw this week's challenge and had to accept. Here's a robot. I'm pretty certain he's going to enslave us all.
By: Roberta Baird,
on 11/24/2009
Mom…. please save the leftovers.
*One of my first digital pieces from a couple of years ago
By: the space wanderer,
on 9/28/2009
By: the space wanderer,
on 9/16/2009
By: Edrian Thomidis,
on 9/6/2009
By: jeff,
on 9/1/2009
Many kids will beg, plead, and annoy their parents into letting them get a puppy or kitten, but few have the skill or foresight to request the best kind of pet, a ROBOT. Just imagine how awesome your life would have been if you had thought to get yourself one of these useful and quirky companions.
GODDARD
Jimmy Neutron, a young genius inventor, created Goddard as a helping hand and best friend. One of Jimmy’s few inventions that doesn’t threaten to burn down the entire town of Retroville, Goddard can reportedly do 11,000,004 things. Goddard however is unable to clean up after his own “messes” (which are nuts and bolts).
GIR
In aiding Invader Zim’s quest to take over the Earth, GIR is at best a distraction. Often, he is the cause of Zim’s epic “Wile E. Coyote” failures. Despite his extremely convincing Earth disguise (a green dog suit with visible zipper) he is indeed a highly powerful yet malfunctional robot.
The Robot from Lost in Space
A Model B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, the robot from Lost in Space has no given name. The Robot is most famous for his catch phrase, “danger Will Robinson!” It seems that the fun of a robot slave was lost on the young Robinson who tolerated the robot as a kind of metal nanny rather than enlisting it into more mischievous purposes.
SPEED BUGGY
While a sputtering delivery of “Roger-Dodger!” and “Vroom-a-zoom-zoom!” may grate on more adult nerves, a talking, self driving dune buggy is just the thing I would have died for as a kid. Speed Buggy even had a remote control making him the world’s largest, most awesome RC car.
C3P0
So he’s a bit of a wanker, C3P0 is still a marvel of engineering from an 8 year old. R2D2 is obviously the preferred choice of the pair, but I would argue that C3P0’s personality make it possible that he can be classified as an actual “pet”, whereas R2D2 is a sassy service droid.
THE DINOBOTS
Big, metal, dumb as rocks. They are the Dinobots and Grimlock is their King! Much like GIR, they are often more trouble than they are worth to the Transformers who built them. The Dinobots combine the awesomeness of Dinosaurs with the sexy sleekness of Robots. One of my most epic dreams ever involved the decimation of my ninja enemies by my pet mechanical Brontosaurus. Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!
And all I ever got was this!!!?
“I love you.” Yeah, yeah. Come back when you can breath fire and/or open locked doors with mathmatical algorhthyms.
I know I must be missing some great Robot Pets, so please leave a comment if you can think of any more!
…
By: jeff,
on 9/1/2009
Many kids will beg, plead, and annoy their parents into letting them get a puppy or kitten, but few have the skill or foresight to request the best kind of pet, a ROBOT. Just imagine how awesome your life would have been if you had thought to get yourself one of these useful and quirky companions.
GODDARD
Jimmy Neutron, a young genius inventor, created Goddard as a helping hand and best friend. One of Jimmy’s few inventions that doesn’t threaten to burn down the entire town of Retroville, Goddard can reportedly do 11,000,004 things. Goddard however is unable to clean up after his own “messes” (which are nuts and bolts).
GIR
In aiding Invader Zim’s quest to take over the Earth, GIR is at best a distraction. Often, he is the cause of Zim’s epic “Wile E. Coyote” failures. Despite his extremely convincing Earth disguise (a green dog suit with visible zipper) he is indeed a highly powerful yet malfunctional robot.
The Robot from Lost in Space
A Model B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, the robot from Lost in Space has no given name. The Robot is most famous for his catch phrase, “danger Will Robinson!” It seems that the fun of a robot slave was lost on the young Robinson who tolerated the robot as a kind of metal nanny rather than enlisting it into more mischievous purposes.
SPEED BUGGY
While a sputtering delivery of “Roger-Dodger!” and “Vroom-a-zoom-zoom!” may grate on more adult nerves, a talking, self driving dune buggy is just the thing I would have died for as a kid. Speed Buggy even had a remote control making him the world’s largest, most awesome RC car.
C3P0
So he’s a bit of a wanker, C3P0 is still a marvel of engineering from an 8 year old. R2D2 is obviously the preferred choice of the pair, but I would argue that C3P0’s personality make it possible that he can be classified as an actual “pet”, whereas R2D2 is a sassy service droid.
THE DINOBOTS
Big, metal, dumb as rocks. They are the Dinobots and Grimlock is their King! Much like GIR, they are often more trouble than they are worth to the Transformers who built them. The Dinobots combine the awesomeness of Dinosaurs with the sexy sleekness of Robots. One of my most epic dreams ever involved the decimation of my ninja enemies by my pet mechanical Brontosaurus. Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!
And all I ever got was this!!!?
“I love you.” Yeah, yeah. Come back when you can breath fire and/or open locked doors with mathmatical algorhthyms.
I know I must be missing some great Robot Pets, so please leave a comment if you can think of any more!
…
By: Sevensheaven.nl,
on 8/30/2009
Title picture and menu background for the Google Android version of the puzzle game Clockwiser.
Clockwiser is also a free online game.
More at Sevensheaven.nl
By: Melinda,
on 8/20/2009
By: Melinda,
on 7/4/2009
By: Chogrin,
on 7/2/2009
By: Sparky Firepants,
on 5/11/2009
I think I just made it in under the wire.
Robots, big or small, get my attention.
This one is small and creepy-cute!